![]() ![]() You can lose track of your switching sequence in a hectic performance situation. Virtually limitless loop stacking potential. The Ditto is super clean- a true blank slate. And amazingly, there’s no perceptible signal loss or tone muddying apart from the clashing or bunched harmonics that can come from a stacked mix. And if you’re crafty and good at harmonizing and formulating countermelodies on the fly, you can put together an incredibly dense, rich, and complex improvised guitar symphony in about ten minutes-especially if you’re willing to get clever with pickup and tone settings and effect pedals out in front of the Ditto. That formidable capacity enables you to loop an entire song and layer multiple guitar melodies for verses and choruses. Using just the single foot switch, you can create loops as long as five minutes and overdub endlessly. Similarly, the Ditto has a way of creating walls of sound on an interstellar scale from what seems like an impossibly minute place. And the smooth, just-about-perfect resistance on the loop level knob means you won’t be changing your loop level accidentally if things get rowdy on stage-it takes a concerted effort to change the settings.Ĭosmologists theorize that the universe exploded from a point the size of a pin. ![]() Like everything TC Electronic makes Ditto feels as solid as marble, and in this case, surprisingly hefty for its size. And a lot of that satisfaction comes from an almost total absence of operational apprehension-with two quarter-inch jacks, a footswitch and a single knob for loop level is just too simple to screw up! The diminutive size, (it measures just 3 5/8” by 1 5/8”) also imparts a sense of relief, for unless you’ve covered every square centimeter of acreage on your pedal board, you will find space for this thing. And for it’s simplicity and sonic fidelity it’s a pedal that can open up a range of extended techniques for even the most conservative-minded player.Ī lot of pedals-whether it’s because they look cool, represent some potential missing link in your tone chain, or otherwise come with some delicious sense of anticipation-engender satisfaction from the time you take them out of the box. But the best part is that the Ditto Looper sacrifices nothing in terms of sonic quality for all this convenience. It’s also about as small as a stompbox can get. This is a looper even the most dunderheaded, Luddite guitarist can use. Given all that, it’s a mystery that someone out there didn’t come up with the TC Electronic Ditto Looper much sooner. Even with all the practice in the world, it doesn’t take but a slight slip-up, or an errant sneaker colliding with a function switch and you’ve created some completely out-of-time embarrassment or summoned some preset completely unrelated to what you’re playing. They can also be a bit stressful to use in performance. If there’s a complaint that you can level against even the best loopers, it’s that they can be tricky little buggers. ![]()
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